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Standards, Practices & Protocols
Inter-Agency Working Group

The SPP IWG focuses on issues relating to forensic science standards, practices, and protocols. Examples activities of this IWG include, but are not limited to:

    • Identify Standards Development Organizations (SDOs).
    • Inventory existing standards/best practices/guidelines/protocols, including those relating to identification, collection, preservation, analysis, evaluation, comparison, interpretation, terminology, and reporting.
    • Recommend processes for conducting a gap analysis, improving existing standards and protocols, and developing new standards and protocols where needed.

Full Charter

Leadership:

Co-Chairs:

    • Sue Ballou, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • Gerry LaPorte, National Institute of Justice
    • Michael Wieners, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Executive Secretary:

    • Brigid O'Brien, Office of Justice Programs

Membership:

    • Mark Ahonen, Indiana State Police
    • Maureen Bottrell, Federal Bureau of Investigation
    • Leonard Butt, Maryland State Police
    • Kai-Dee Chu, Department of Homeland Security
    • Thomas D'Agostino, Biometrics Task Force
    • James Downs, Georgia Bureau of Investigation
    • Jennifer Friedman, Los Angeles County
    • Norman Gahn, Milwaukee County
    • Brandon Giroux, Michigan State Police Northville Laboratory
    • Wesley Grose, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
    • Randy Hanzlick, Emory University
    • Patricia Hawes, Customs and Border Protection
    • Thomas Holland, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command/Cental Identification Laboratory
    • Linda Jackson, Virginia Dept of Forensic Science
    • Mary Lou Leitner, United States Secret Service
    • Rosemary Malone, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
    • Jennifer Mihalovich, Oakland Police Department
    • Kathy Moore, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
    • Michael Murphy, Drug Enforcement Administration
    • Michael Murphy, Office of the Clark County Coroner/Medical Examiner
    • Lisa Neall, National Institutes of Health
    • Martin Novak, National Institute of Justice
    • Brian Nunamkaer, Drug Enforcement Administration
    • Linda Park, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
    • Ron Reinstein, Arizona Supreme Court
    • Danielle Seiger, Federal Bureau of Investigation
    • Kirsten Singer, Dept of Veterans Affairs
    • Carl Sobieralski, Indiana State Police
    • Alice Thomas, United States Secret Service
    • Michelle Thompson, Federal Bureau of Investigation
    • Laura Tierney, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
    • Rick Tontarski, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
    • Terrill Tops, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
    • James Wardwell, Fraternal Order of Police
    • Kenna Yarbrough, National Enforcement Investigations Center